January 2001


A man goes into the Bank of Gdansk to make a deposit. Since he has never kept money in a bank before, he is a little nervous.
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Paul Harvey writes… We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would. I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
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Eight third-grade students in Westwego, Louisiana, were strip-searched after another student reported $20 missing. The children were taken one by one into a closet where boys were told to drop their pants and the girls were told to strip down to nothing.
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A bill that would let Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibit its residents from sleeping in rooms other than a bedroom has won approval in the state senate. The measure is intended as a weapon against immigrants who save money by sharing homes.
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Andrew Freiberger (via email) writes, “I’m driving down the road to work this morning and what did I see, but a circa late 70s early 80s rusted out Chevy truck complete with dualies and all…so, I’m thinking, “who the hell drives something that shitty looking and gas guzzling”….I pull up close behind at the next light…the plates?
U.S. Government
EPA 521″

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